Another week, another question from Cross Blogging in the weekly Christian Views Symposium. Those of you with writer's block, head on over -- the topics are always good, get you thinking, and give you things to write about if you can't think of anything else!

This week's question came from Lennie's viewing of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory:

You have to make the following choice:

1. Move into and inherit the largest chocolate factory in the world, but never see your family again; or
2. Stay with your family who is very poor, but are loving and supportive.

Questions:

Would you choose #1 or #2 and why?
Is there anything that could be offered to you to make you abandon your family?

A much easier question than last week, thanks for the break, Lennie.

Given that set of options, I would very clearly choose #2. Despite what Hollywood and the American Left might have you believe, I think that the vast majority of people would make the same selection. For most people, especially here in the South, family is #1. I often see people making decisions about work and jobs that reflect their emphasis on family (perhaps sometimes too much).

I could see some more materially focused people answering #1, saying that they would simply provide for their family financially with their income from the factory, but more and more people realize that is a very sad choice. Children need a two-parent family with a father and a mother -- more people are realizing that today than in the recent past.

As for the second question, I have to confirm the wording: "offered?" If the question is there anything that you, Donald Trump, or Bill Gates can offer me, the answer is "no." There are no material things that would be acceptable to me. On the other hand, is there "anything" that could be offered? Yes.

I would like to believe that if God were to ask me to do something that would require me to "abandon" my family here on earth, I hope that I would be able to do it. I'm not saying it would be easy, and I'm not saying I wouldn't question the decision, or even be happy with it -- and I certainly hope that such a situation would ever arise. But if it did, I would have to obey, knowing that we would be together at a later time, in a much better place.

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